Source: Jacqui Fatka, FARM PROGRESS, 11/11/21


Hog processing facilities caught in the crosshairs of a court challenging slaughter line speeds may have an opportunity to again resume higher speeds as part of a limited-time trial to evaluate the impact on worker safety. At the start of April, the U.S. District Court of Minnesota issued a decision in United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local No. 663 v. U.S. Department of Agriculture which essentially threw out the elimination of line speed limits codified in a 2019 rule under the Trump administration...

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